Beck Doubles Down on Abusive Holocaust Rhetoric

Ariela Fleisig — July 28, 2011 – 4:45 pm | Abusive Holocaust Rhetoric Comments (0) Add a comment

Right-wing radio host Glenn Beck defended his offensive comments regarding the recent terror attack in Norway with more abusive Holocaust references.

During his radio show Tuesday, Beck compared the media and public defense of President Barack Obama’s policies to Adolf Hitler’s propaganda machine. Listen here:

When Beck’s co-host attempted to mitigate his remarks, he responded:

Don’t start. Don’t even. Don’t! If we’re living in a society where we can’t say X in the same paragraph as Y and not be told we are comparing it… if we live in that society we are doomed. We are going to be a society of gas chambers. If you can’t have a logical conversation…the question is, does this country bypass the mainstream media faster than it’s destroyed. I’m betting yes. It’s called GBTV. You want to have a real conversation? Let’s have a real conversation. But you’ve got to bypass the mainstream media ... enough is enough.

On his radio show Wednesday, Beck attempted to pass himself off as a victim by saying:

[The media has] been taking something that I’ve said completely out of context, and they’re trying again to destroy me. Give it your best shot, gang. You tried to get me out of the mainstream media; be careful what you wish for… If I go down, don’t worry. I’m doing my damndest to make sure there are 30 million others exactly like me who will never sit down.

Tablet’s Marc Tracy wrote in response to Beck’s comments:

Some might argue that we won’t be a society of gas chambers until there are actual gas chambers. And some might argue that someone who says such things, and who has been credibly accused of Holocaust revisionism and of trafficking in anti-Semitic tropes in his polemics against George Soros, maybe shouldn’t be throwing a major rally in Jerusalem next month.

Click here to read Marc Tracy’s full article.

Click here to read Nina Mandell’s full article from the New York Daily News.        

 

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